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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.


Vince Cable


#achieve #anger #apology #attacking #banks

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.


William Feather


#ourselves #us #will #world

The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.


Millicent Fawcett


#appealed #dates #england #extension #first

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.


Vince Cable


#because #british #culture #existing #focusing

We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.


Vince Cable


#announce #balance #bank #british #business

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.


Vince Cable


#cannot #child #cooked #eat #eater

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.


Miguel Cabrera


#go #make #mistake #nervous #you

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.


Millicent Fawcett


#consecrates #death #done #final #gave

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.


Jack Cade


#any #break #contrary #distinction #else

At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.


Frank Cady


#bald #ball #because #character #cue






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